Yves Smith | Naked Capitalism | 14 May 2012 Scathing takedown of US president. "It isn’t simply that Obama lied. Politicians lie. But there are norms for political lying. The depth and dependability of Obama’s misrepresentation constitute a difference in kind" Comments Peter Boone & Simon Johnson | Bloomberg | 13 May 2012 "The euro currency is a malady that condemns at least a generation of Greeks, Italians, Spaniards, Portuguese and Irish to the economic infirmary." Politicians would do better to accept this and prepare for an orderly dismantling Comments Ed Pilkington | Guardian | 15 May 2012 Troubling story of Carlos DeLuna, executed in 1989 for the brutal murder of a young woman. DeLuna always insisted that the killer was a lookalike, Carlos Hernandez. But police denied Hernandez even existed. They were wrong Comments Leon Neyfakh | Boston Globe | 13 May 2012 Is our financial behaviour decided by genes? A group of young economists believe so. They've gone beyond neuroeconomics, and established a new field – genoeconomics. Here's what they hope to achieve. And the issues they face Comments Ernest Hemingway | Hemingway Papers/Toronto Star | 7 May 2012 Hemingway's old paper, the Toronto Star, has launched a terrific new project to republish his columns. In this piece, from 1923, Hemingway describes the first bullfights he saw – an experience he was to revisit in his first novel Comments James Wood | New Yorker | 14 May 2012 Captivating review of Laurent Binet's new historical novel "HHhH", about rise and fall of Reinhard Heydrich. SS intelligence chief known as "Himmler's brain". Planned Kristallnacht, convened infamous Wannsee Conference. Assassinated Comments | 
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